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How to create a shortcut to PSP folders?

Submitted by Sergix on December 21, 2006 - 7:26am

Hi Guys,

I have a Sony PSP and, has many of you know, PSP uses Default Folders to store Pictures, Music and Video. We can´t rename delete or move those folders, so that PSP knows where to get the data. I have replaced the folders in Portable Apps for shortcuts pointing to those folders but i had to create a shortcut like this "D:\PHOTO".

My question is: If i connect my PSP to a computer in wich he assumes the Disc drive has E: or another letter differnet from D: i won´t be able to access the PSP folders using the Portable Apps Menu, i will have to use the explore disc shortcut.

Is there any way to configure the shortcut to use the drive letter assigned for the PSP? Like in Windows when we do %systemroot% and he points to the Windows folder no matter the drive letter.

Thank you.

Submitted by montez2301 on December 20, 2006 - 11:42am

I can't tell you how grateful I am for PortableApps.com. I recently took a job in a networked environment where I don't have admin privileges, my network profile allotment is a measly 30 mb, and I'm not allowed to bring my laptop to work. Loading PortableApps onto a 512 mb Lexar flash drive has given me total control of my computing environment. I'm free!

I'm quickly filling up the 512 drive, though. I'm going to kick it up a notch to a 10 gb pocket hard drive connecting through firewire -- faster, I hope, and lots of room to grow.

Thanks, John!

Kingston DT Elite...slows down

Submitted by paladin2006 on December 19, 2006 - 2:30pm

When I install a fresh copy of the portable apps on my DT Elite they all work responsively.

After a time the apps slow down. FF for example is crawling. So I reinstalled FF and it is a bit better but still slow. I used to run Faster Fox, Scrapbook etc but with the new install I omitted these extensions and it is still slow.

I did not change any of the settings so 0MB cache etc.

Does anyone know why this happens. I have also reformatted the DT and that helps but soon enough FF slows down. This does not seem to happen so obviously to Thunderbird for example.

Am I expecting too much from the DT? Have the write cycles caught up with me?

Work / home; friends; internet cafes

Submitted by fergus on December 19, 2006 - 10:11am

There are many references in the forums to the context in which PortableApps (or just portable apps) on a portable drive might be used on host machines, the most usual being machines at work/home and those belonging to colleagues, friends (holidays?) and internet cafes. Is it just me, or do these suggestions reflect a world quite different from the one I inhabit? I don't work in a particularly secure or as far as I know a very paranoid environment, but I can't think of many "colleagues" who would welcome me into their space brandishing a USB stick ... that's easily short-circuited, but where I find real difficulty is on foreign territory: I haven't found an internet cafe with a USB port, or not one that's enabled anyway, and up until reading the posts, had assumed that this is pretty usual.

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